Week 5- Hospital to Home

Question 1

What is perception?

Answer 1

Processing that transforms sensory information into meaningful representations

Question 2

What is agnosia?

Answer 2

Failure of recognition of:
Visual agnosia
Auditory agnosia
Astereognosis

Question 3

What is visual spatial neglect?

Answer 3

Failure to report, respond or orient to a stimuli in the space CL to the site of the brain lesion

Question 4

Visual spatial neglect is most common with damage to what area of the brain?

Answer 4

Right parietal lesions

Question 5

What is apraxia?

Answer 5

Disorder of movement not characterised by problems with tone/ coordination but by an inability to combine simple movements into a sequence to achieve a goal

Question 6

What are two types of apraxia?

Answer 6

Ideomotor - disorder in planning, timing and spatial organisation of purposeful movement. Can imitate movements but can’t do to command.
Ideational - disorder in the performance of purposeful movement due to loss of concept of movement. Unable to copy movement. May perform isolated movements out of context.

Question 7

What are three perceptive functions of each hemisphere?

Answer 7

Right - processing of global information, recognition of objects and body parts, spatial relationships
Left - Processing of focal information, sequencing of action, literal analysis of emotional input

Question 8

What is cognition?

Answer 8

All the mental processes that allow us to recognise, learn, remember and attend to changing information in the environment

Question 9

What are three types of amnesia?

Answer 9

Post traumatic
Retrograde
Anterograde - inability to incorporate new info

Question 10

Name 3 outcome measures for cognition

Answer 10

MoCa - Montreal Cognitive Ax
MMSE - Mini Mental State Examination
ACE-R - Addenbrookes’ Cognitive Examination Revised